• Write about ten letters on a page. Show the class a letter and they find it on their paper.
• You spell a word that is meaningful to learners. Learners writes the word.
• Create an Alphabet Bingo activity by putting letters on the blank Bingo card provided in this kit. Either you or a learner can call out the letters, learners in the class recognize the letters and cover the letter on their Bingo card.
• Have a variety of letters on the page and ask learn-ers to connect the letters in alphabetical order.
• Word searches can be hand made or created with word search computer programs. These programs are readily available as well.
• Put the alphabet cards in alphabetical order.
• Phonic activities can be created using letters and sounds that are important to learners. Teaching phonetics can be challenging since some ESL literacy learners have not developed a lot of vocabulary yet. Therefore it is important to use phonetics found in words that are familiar to learners such as learner’s name, names of family members, names of other people in the class, country names, etc. The instructor can elicit words that have the same first letter. After a few different sounds are recognized, the instructor writes these words on a paper and leaves a blank in place of the first letter. The instructor or a more advanced learner reads the first word and learners fills in the blank. If pictures of these words are available, you can make a work-sheet that includes the picture with the word beside it with a blank in place of the first letter. Learners looks at the picture and says the word and fills in the blank. You can do the same activity with final consonants and blends.
• Singing the “alphabet song” provides melodic groupings of letters and reinforces the names and order of the letters.

Alphabet Concentration

Have one set of upper case letters and one set of lower case letters. Lay them face down on a table. Each person takes turns turning over two cards and saying the letter as they turn it over. If the cards do not match, return them to their face-down position and the next person tries. The goal is to get two letters the same. This reinforces the names of the letters through repetition as well as provides an opportunity to familiarize learner's with the letters. When you do this activity, begin with fewer cards so it is a more manageable task for learner's.

Alphabet Fish

Pre-teach the question, “Do you have a ‘k’?” and “Yes,here you are”. Or “No, sorry I don’t.” Have two sets of alphabet cards. Deal a few cards to each player. Put the remaining cards upside down in the middle of the table. One person starts by choosing a card in their hand and asking if another person has that card. He asks, “Do you have an ‘o’?” If the answer is“yes”, the person gives the asker the card and he put sit together with his card on the table. If the answer is“no”, the asker picks up a card from the pile of card sin the middle of the table. The idea is to get pairs of letters. This reinforces the recognition as well as the names of the letters.

Alphabet Board Game

See introduction for description.